There is no need for the writer to eat a whole sheep to be able to tell you what mutton tastes like. It is enough if he eats a cutlet. But he should do that.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain

I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool.

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on it in novels gives it an importance which is untrue to life. There are few men to whom it is the most important thing in the world, and they are not the very interesting ones; even women, with whom the subject is of paramount interest, have a contempt for them.

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.